Ed Mulholland/US PresswireIlya Kovalchuk says the Devils' next goal is to get to .500.

The question of the day in the Devils dressing room was this: Are they over the hump after Thursday night's shutout victory in Montreal?

"Oh, no," defenseman Colin White said. "We got a win and that's all we went there to do. We went there to get a better effort for 60 minutes and we built on that, too. It wasn't a perfect game, but we got the result we wanted."

How many solid games in succession will signify that they are out of the woods?

"There is no number with a long season," White said. "Right now we're building one game at a time."